This award-winning quilter and teacher shares with her readers a dozen exquisite flower baskets to applique. These versatile patterns can be combined to make the featured quilt called Gems of Summer, or you can mix and match the blocks to make wallhangings, pillows, clothing, throws, valences, or whatever comes to mind. The author provides step-by-step guidance for selecting fabrics, making freezer-paper or contact-paper templates, needle-turn applique, appli-piecing, reverse applique, cut-away applique, and basic embroidery. Four medallion quilt settings with yardage and instructions are presented to best display the beautiful basket blocks. AUTHORBIO: A seamstress since the age of 14, Emily tried her hand at numerous needle crafts before discovering quilting. A move to Kansas in 1974 provided her an opportunity to teach quilt classes, and she now designs and lectures as well. REVIEW: A reader from Colorado Springs, CO states, "This is a beautiful book with several patterns for detailed applique. The instructions are straight-forward and easy to understand. Several setting ideas are included. The flowers are beautifully detailed. This is the book I've been looking for! If you want to make a stunning quilt this is the book to buy."
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Very realistic looking flower designs, great patterns,
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Try Emily's method for echo applique. Use this technique when you want to highlight a shape or pattern piece. You can stitch the narrowest little border using this technique. Great job, Emily.
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This is a beautiful book with several patterns for detailed applique. The instructions are straight-forward and easy to understand. Several setting ideas are included. The flowers are beautifully detailed. This is the book I've been looking for! If you want to make a stunning quilt this is the book to buy.
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This is a fantasic applique book of baskets and forals for the advanced appliquer. Can't wait to see it come to life in fabric. Clear patterns with detaild directions. Not a book for beginners.
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To achieve a well-balanced design, it is good to have general idea of the color scheme and overall look you want to achieve before selecting any of the fabrics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
instructional marks, excess fabric layers, medallion section, primrose basket, echo outline, medallion square, quilt setting, basket fabric, excess layers, embroidery details, basket pattern, background square, overlay marks, anchor stitch, flower units, four corner triangles, basket unit, basket piece, basket blocks, master pattern, selected fabric, accent borders, background fabric, assembly diagram, quilt top Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gems of Summer Emily, Master Patterns, Embroidery Stitches, Fabric Requirements, Tulip Basket, Canna Basket, Clematis Basket, Daisy Basket, Toni Fisher, Anita Shackelford, Anna Kephart, Crown Design, Overland Park, Senuta Fig New!
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To achieve a well-balanced design, it is good to have general idea of the color scheme and overall look you want to achieve before selecting any of the fabrics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
instructional marks, excess fabric layers, medallion section, primrose basket, echo outline, medallion square, quilt setting, basket fabric, excess layers, embroidery details, basket pattern, background square, overlay marks, anchor stitch, flower units, four corner triangles, basket unit, basket piece, basket blocks, master pattern, selected fabric, accent borders, background fabric, assembly diagram, quilt top Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gems of Summer Emily, Master Patterns, Embroidery Stitches, Fabric Requirements, Tulip Basket, Canna Basket, Clematis Basket, Daisy Basket, Toni Fisher, Anita Shackelford, Anna Kephart, Crown Design, Overland Park, Senuta Fig New!
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- Anita Shackelford: Surface Textures by Anita Shackelford on page 102, and Back Matter
- Quilting Patterns from Native American Designs by Joyce Mori in Back Matter
- Dye Painting! by Ann Johnston in Back Matter
- Heirloom Miniatures by Tina M. Gravatt in Back Matter
- Native American Designs 2 by Joyce Mori in Back Matter
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